A random thought

I was driving towards downtown Minneapolis the other day, on the way to a Twins game (a very boring Twins game, by the way), when I passed one of the new video billboards on Interstate 35W. On display? A public service announcement decrying graffiti and imploring people not to "decorate" buildings.

The message was in Spanish.

Since we have been discussing illegal immigration so much here lately, I thought that this sighting was worthy of a mention, since it raises many relevant questions.

1. Is the graffiti problem in Minneapolis a predominately Hispanic one? If so, is the graffiti predominately the work of illegal immigrants, who are already breaking the law, and so are probably not averse to breaking others?

2. Could it be that the city of Minneapolis is putting up billboards asking vandals politely to not deface property because they are reluctant to aggressively combat Hispanic graffiti artists by going after them criminally, as they would then be accused of "racism", just like they were when the Minneapolis police recently helped to bust a prostitution ring run by illegal immigrants? The cops were blasted by liberal activists for providing help to Federal immigration agents, who arrested the ringleaders on immigration violations, as well as prostitution charges. In the activists' minds, the fact that women were being kept as slaves and forced to have sex with up to 40 men a night wasn't important, the fact that the local cops helped the "evil ICE department" round up criminals who weren't here legally was. Priorities, you know.

3. Most liberals consider it "racist" to solve and prevent crimes by targeting prevention and enforcement efforts on those groups that commit those crimes in the highest numbers. For example, in their minds, the fact that all of the major terrorist attacks on airplanes in this country have been perpetrated by young Muslim males isn't enough reason to give Arab plane travelers extra scrutiny. If one believes that profiling is evil, then isn't the anti-graffiti billboard "racist" in and of itself, by singling out the Spanish-speaking only people in the city? After all, other groups must commit the very same crime. Why concentrate on the Hispanics? Unless, of course, the reason is that they're the ones doing it, and then it would make perfect sense, except to the city of Minneapolis, which would never soil its hands by "profiling". Right, Minneapolis? It never fails to amuse me how one can be vehemently against a certain policy, until there's a problem in one's own backyard, which then always seems to justify using that same policy that one is so against others using in far more critical situations. Hypocrisy is fun!

Just some random things to kick around one's head on a lazy afternoon. Thoughts?